Don't Throw Food Away Challenge 2012

FannyAdams_2

I'd like to join too, wasting food is a bit of a problem in this house!

I'm putting myself down for staying under £10 in January.

prosaver

squeaky wrote: »

Nope!

I didn't buy a Rolls Royce this year, or a luxury yacht, or a holiday home in Marbella...

.. so I've saved tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even

good one
:T

Oscar_the_Pug

I went looking to update it but can't find it, and the posts I did have disappeared from my profile too. Have I missed something? :think:

FannyAdams_2

There is a new one for 2012 here if that helps https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3696329

Mumof2_2

I gave the bit of jacket potato with beans and cheese that my son didn't eat for his lunch to the chooks who were very glad to help out - does that count as waste or is it being put to good use do you think?

audiopineapple

I'm going to try and join in on this challenge; I quite often end up throwing away fruit or half a tin of tomatoes so hopeully this challenge will help me save some money (and get portion sizes more under control as well.)

I'm aiming for under £5 for January. I didn't eat some of the sauce or cheese for lunch but only about 10p's worth.


Total Wasted - January: 10p

Penelope_Penguin

Oscar_the_Pug wrote: »

I went looking to update it but can't find it, and the posts I did have disappeared from my profile too. Have I missed something? :think:

It's on the front page I'll merge this with it, and then you'll easily be able to find it

VfM4meplse

I'm usually so careful about not binning but am having to throw this Big Pear Pie out. I bought it reduced to 99p last week thinking someone would eat it (lots of guests to cater for) - wrong! I don't eat processed foods and there's no way I'm touching it. 1st day of the month and 99p gone already....!

Had a very frugal late lunch of 2 shredded wheat that have been in my food cupboard for at least 3 years .

SpikyHedgehog

I had bad news at the end of November, so gave up when I'd got to wasting £5 out of the £5 I'd hoped not to go past & couldn't face a challenge for December.

So now I am setting our goal at £10 in a cunning plan that if we 'only' throw away £5 again, I'll feel positive & be able to continue keeping a check on what we throw away.

I've half a loaf of home made bread in the bread bin that needs something doing with it... I've sorted out making sure my bread's cooked properly, but if I don't freeze the extra loaves, they go squidgy in the middle as though not completely cooked in the first place. Except the rest of the batch are cooked ok :undecided . I don't know if it's because I'm using Weezl's recipe with instant oat cereal, or if maybe they're not really all cooked properly in the first place.

But I need to get this sorted as DS2 threw 2 slices of bread away yesterday that were too yucky to eat (doesn't count as that was December!). I'll toast the rest or slice it up & put in the oven to dry out if I've got it on for something else.

Veg in the fridge needs using up, I need to use up stuff in the freezer so I can get more stuff in there... Didn't have much Christmas stuff in as we were at my parents' for Christmas & Boxing Days, I think we're getting through the stuff ok. We have come home from there today with dips so mum doesn't have to throw them away, but I'm using them as sandwich/toast stuff. (?Does it count if you end up throwing part of something away that you've already taken from someone else so they won't throw it away? If it's something you wouldn't have bought in the first place?)

destroyerofdebt2011

Please count me in, i'd like to throw less than £3 worth of food out for the whole of Jan excluding veg peelings, i dont have a garden to compost those. I am mainly Living out the freezer and stock cupboards at the min so fingers crossed its all under control.

D.O.D